I appear to have a mild bout of flu at the moment. Great! I don't think I've been feeling this super-fantastic since my brush with morning sickness during my incredibly brief pregnancy.

B and I spent the day in San Francisco. We drove down there initially to have a late breakfast with my old youth pastor, J, but due to a comedy of errors on both parts (including late departures to the city, the same address for two restaurants, and notoriously bad parking availability) we ultimately settled on brunch at Mel's Drive-In. We had a good time laughing, talking, and eating for about two hours before J ultimately had to depart, but I was pleased that J and B were instantly big fans of each other. At different points, they both had me laughing so hard I nearly cried, and I could see in J's face that he picked up on the chemistry between us.

After we said good-bye to J, B and I decided to catch an early movie and then head home from the city. We wound up watching "A Christmas Carol" with Jim Carrey, which ended up being a better cinematic experience than I thought it would be (largely due to watching the IMAX 3-D version, I'm sure) but was still off, somehow. I'm sure part of my perspective is being colored by the fact I'm really not feeling well and spent large chunks of time in the restroom.

We came home and B hustled me into bed to get comfortable. We decided to watch "And the Band Played On," because B had never seen it, and it chronicles the AIDS epidemic. We had watched "Outbreak" in bed last night, and when I saw how much B liked it, I knew he'd love "And the Band Played On" because it's a damn fine movie without even being the actual account. So, while I lay like an injured puppy, he stayed beside me, grabbing whatever I needed and providing some much-needed cuddle time. I don't mind that we changed our Sunday routine up a bit by going into the city, but I did regret we didn't get to spend nearly as much time in bed as we've become accustomed to for our Sunday ritual.

At the moment, he's back at his house and I'm here at the apartment, alone. As much as I'd like to see him, I probably need tonight alone to get my immune system back on track. Have I mentioned that I hate having the flu? I actually don't like being ill under any circumstances, but the flu is the worst because you can't really do anything. You have to wait for the stupid virus to run its course, which could be anywhere from 24 hours to an entire week.

If anyone needs me, I'll be the sap in bed watching old movies.

HQs of Rob and Kristen headed out of LAX today on their way to more NM promotion.



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If you've how been browsing around the comm in the last day or so you may have noticed some dead image links especially on slightly older posts. Thats because we've been doing some epic cleaning of the community's photobucket which was insanely messy. But now it is all neat and organized so now we are going through some of the older posts to update the images so they work.

This will take some time but if you come across an older post with dead image links leave a comment on the page-a-mod and I'll fix it a.s.a.p for you OR you can simply go to the community's photobucket yourself HERE. It's all unlocked and organized for you now. The link to the album is also on the sidebar as "photos" so if you ever need to browse through it's there.

Thats all but we just wanted you all to know while we finish cleaning up!

I don't know if anybody has seen this, but when I was on Sparknotes.com reading about Romeo and Juliet but really trying to find a way to get distracted from doing my homework looking for a passage for my Romeo and Juliet essay, I found this:

Blogging Twilight

It's a parody of Twilight. He's done New Moon too, and just started Eclipse.

It's absolutely hilarious, and definitely worth the read especially if you're trying to procrastinate.

(Sorry mods, I didn't know what to tag this as.)

ETA: Here is a list of all of them on one page here.

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Ryan Potulny and Dustin Penner scored two of Edmonton's four power-play goals and also had assists, and the Oilers handed the Colorado Avalanche their first home loss of the season, 5-3 on Sunday night.

When this writer first met Robert Pattinson, he was a relatively obscure British actor who'd received a tiny bit of notoriety from appearing in a "Harry Potter" flick. It was April, 2008 and as we talked on the set of this tiny flick titled "Twilight" during a night shoot in the middle of a small Oregon town, he considered a scenario where he might not continue acting. Perhaps he'd focus on the music side of career, perhaps not. Needless to say, what a difference a year and a half makes.

Arguably up there with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as one of the most popular celebrities in the world, it's no understatement to say the "Twilight" franchise has completely changed Pattinson's life forever. We spoke again during the "New Moon" press day on Saturday and while it wasn't the 45 minutes I'd been granted when he was "up and coming" not that long ago, it was clear that Pattinson was still as polite, genial and honest as he was back then.

The 23-year-old joked about how he may just keep working as much as possible because the seclusion of shooting allows him a somewhat "normal life" and went in depth about the differences between working with his "Twilight," "New Moon" and "Eclipse" directors. He also made some particularly intriguing comments about the last "Twilight" installment in particular.

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Title: Since You Been Gone
Author: dennycullenlutz
Characters/Pairing: Edward/Bella, Victoria/James, the rest of the Cullens
Rating: M
Summary: Victoria is on the look for revenge. She had lost her true love. Edward has to protect the city of Seattle and the ones he loves: Bella, Nessie and his family. Could he save them from Victoria's revenge?.. OOC / AH / Lemons


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So every week with the read along post I included a small poll asking people to choose their favorite of the three chapters of twilight we read for that week. I thought it would be fun to take those winners and decide on our over all favorite chapter of the entire book.

Poll #1482715 lion_lamb readalong
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favorite chapter of twilight?

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Defensemen Tobias Enstrom and Ron Hainsey forced overtime with third-period goals, and Rich Peverley and Slava Kozlov scored in a shootout to give the Atlanta Thrashers a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis on Sunday night.

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01-14 New Moon
15-07 Kristen Stewart
68-73 Kristen and Rob shoot
74-88 Rob Pattinson
89-99 Sebastian Stan, a few w/ Leighton

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The Washington Capitals denied a report Sunday that Alex Ovechin's return from an upper-body strain will take longer than the original timetable given.